Strategic People Business Partner

Arcadis is the world's leading company delivering sustainable design, engineering, and consultancy solutions for natural and built assets.

We are more than 36,000 people, in over 70 countries, dedicated to improving quality of life. Everyone has an important role to play. With the power of many curious minds, together we can solve the world’s most complex challenges and deliver more impact together.

**Role description**:
The role will lead the cultural and people component within the Architecture organization of GBA Places in coordination with all key stakeholders by developing and implementing supportive people programs aligned with focus area strategic objectives, including establishing an environment for growth and capability building.

The Strategic People Business Partner will establish trusted and influential relationships with the business area leaders on strategic people priorities and provide front-line advisory on people initiatives and programs with a strategic people or business impact. They will also collaborate with other business partners and people services teams to deliver the total employee experience within a geographic area. The role will work with the GBA People Director to build an inclusive high-performing organization, in line with the strategic people and culture direction.

**Role accountabilities**:
**Workforce solution leader**
- Work strategically with business leaders to identify and select creative and inclusive capability, well-being, culture, and talent development-focused solutions to key business challenges, co-create the solutions, and deploy them in a pragmatic way with the local people services team. This needs to be done in line with the global Centre of Excellence (COE) direction.
- Work with our leaders, COE leads and People services to define people priorities that align with the experience we want to create for our people and support the design and delivery of related People function policies, processes, and programs
- Support and champion standardization of ERP set up in line with the global approach and implement a global way of working.
- Develop for the future - assist in the execution of strategic workforce planning across the function and participate in selection/ promotion decisions to ensure that our people have the necessary skills and understanding to deliver the team's objective.
- Plan, forecast, coordinate, and broker customer-focused People programs and solutions that are linked to business outcomes and impact the realization of the business strategy.
- Support the implementation in the country of global approaches to a learning culture, learning journeys, competency frameworks, and development curriculum to promote individual and team learning.
- Support the GBA People Director to create the People plan in support of business area strategy ensuring cross-business area consistency through collaboration COEs and enhancing the country employee proposition.
- Manage strategic relationships locally with internal/external providers to optimize holistic solutions

**Strategic ‘Barometer’ and proactive advisor**
- Consult with the business and challenge them on strategic organizational and capability issues that contribute to the growth and competitiveness of the business and deliver an excellent employee experience on the moments that matter for the function workforce that is consistent across Arcadis.
- Responsible for articulating and advocating business unit needs back to GBA People Director.

**Insights expert**
- Use analytics to bring proactive business insights to the People team, and people insight to the business to drive innovations and make data-driven people decisions in partnership with the People Analytics team.
- Taking a more holistic view of the business to provide feedback on People function policies, processes, and programs.
- Ensure regular employee listening is conducted and followed up with adequate action plans through Arcadis Your Voice.

**Organization Effectiveness & Transformation Leader**
- Facilitate discussions around change, culture, and transformation
- Ensure all annual People processes and programs such as GPS, talent reviews, and salary reviews are delivered within the function and in collaboration with People services and COE leads.
- Work to improve the effectiveness of people metrics in their function, aiming to increase retention and engagement.
- Give feedback to People Services by suggesting improvements in the efficiency and quality of people services support.
- Provide direction on high-level change programmes, ensuring compliance with legislation and alignment to business sector objectives and strategic direction of the business area.
- Work with the Employee Relations team (where available) to support the management of high-risk complex casework providing commercially sound advice whilst minimizing impact to the business.

**Leadership Talent Coach**
- Develop and challenge leaders and managers to execute